Is the computer you have still good enough?
Practical guides to judging, fixing and upgrading the machine you already own. Each one ends with what Innards' own rules would say about it, quoted from the app's catalog, and none of them will tell you to buy something that won't help.
Is my old laptop still good enough?
Judge an ageing laptop by what you actually do with it: which workloads it still handles, which parts are the ceiling, and what is worth fixing for free.
5 min read
How to check SSD and NVMe health on Linux
smartctl and nvme-cli step by step: percentage_used, available spare, unsafe shutdowns, media errors, temperature history, and which numbers mean replace.
5 min read
Your laptop has no swap. Here is what happens when memory runs out.
Why a Linux machine with no swap freezes and then kills programs instead of slowing down, and how zram plus a swapfile fix it in ten minutes.
5 min read
Laptop battery health percentage: what it means and when to replace
How battery health is calculated, how to read it on Linux, Windows and macOS, what cycle counts mean, and the point at which a replacement is worth it.
4 min read
Should I upgrade the RAM or buy a new laptop?
How to find out whether your laptop's memory is soldered, how much RAM each kind of work needs, and when soldered memory is the reason to change machine.
5 min read
Can you use an old Android phone as a home server?
What a rooted OnePlus 6T or other Snapdragon 845 phone can honestly do as a pocket server, why postmarketOS beats rooted Android, and the real limits.
5 min read
Written by Eugene Trotsan, the developer of Innards. No affiliate links, no sponsored recommendations. Corrections welcome on GitHub.
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